Gopher Gang

The Gopher Gang was an Irish-American street gang based in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. The gang existed from the 1890s to the 1910s, and it came to rule over the West Side of Manhattan; it had 500 members, including Owney Madden and James T. Ellison. The gang would come to an end in the late 1910s along with several other Irish gangs in the city as the American Mafia gained power.